Quotes and Sayings about Stories

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

Alan Rickman

What else is a story than a lie everyone agrees on?

Napoléon Bonaparte

People aren't like numbers. They're more like letters. And those letters want to become stories. And dad said that stories need to be shared.

Oskar Schell in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Letters Numbers

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Christoph Waltz

Movies

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Julia Quinn

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Clive Barker

It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

Karen Blixen

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Surprises

You see, most men, they'll tell a story straight through— it won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.

Edward Bloom in Big Fish

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

Light

One can believe in a story without believing it happened.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance

I confess, I need stories to understand the world.

Siegfried Lenz

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

Octavia E. Butler

Writing

Some people believe if we repeat stories often enough they become real. They make us who we are. That can be scary.

Stella Nicholls in Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark

The more you read, the better you’re going to become as a storyteller.

Stan Lee

Reading

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you, that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.

Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - to Frodo

A good story never dies.

Roberta Williams

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Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

John Green

Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

Words Love Writing

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Roald Dahl

Writing

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Imagination

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Gaston: "How can you read this, there's no pictures?"
Belle: "Well, some people use their imagination."

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

Imagination Reading

The king is a man, and a man can fail. But a myth is indestructible.

Rebel Moon - Part One - A Child of Fire

Kings Myths & Legends

There's always a bit of truth in legends.

Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: Rebels - Season 2 Episode 21

Myths & Legends

Tress considered herself to be categorically boring. She liked her tea lukewarm, she went to bed on time, she loved her parents, occasionally squabbled with her little brother, and didn't litter. She was fair at needlepoint, and had a talent for baking. But had no other noteworthy skills. She didn't train at fencing in secret, she couldn't talk to animals, she had no hidden royalty or deities in her lineage. Though her great-grandmother Glorf had once reportedly waved at the king.

Brandon Sanderson in Tress of the Emerald Sea

Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer

Sad Quotes

They say the first year after a major loss is the hardest. That’s an understatement; loss is its own brand of insanity and no relief from it. There are no shortcuts and the only way through grief is through it. You just have to get up every day and wait to go to bed every night, then wake up and do it all over again.

Ka Hancock in Dancing on Broken Glass

Grief & Condolence Loss

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's Game

Heart Breakup Sad Quotes

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Love Silence

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Richard Bach

Moments

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Yuk Je in 1899 - Season 1 Episode 1

Ending

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

Ken Follett in Fall of Giants

Birth Babies

When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, "After all this time?" And I will say: "Always."

Alan Rickman (Actor of Severus Snape)

Quotes about Harry Potter

Take your time to think, but when it is time to act, stop thinking and act!

Napoléon Bonaparte

Thinking Taking action

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Music Sad Quotes

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Letters Sentences

Having conquered numbers, humankind moved on to something even more boring: by inventing writing.

Philomena Cunk in Cunk On Earth - Episode 1

Writing Numbers

Usually, the evil guys are the more appealing roles.

Christoph Waltz

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

Spike Lee

Movies

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